Author Archives: Cleaver Patterson

A Night in the Woods follows Brody (Scoot McNairy), his girlfriend Kerry (Anna Skellern) and her cousin Leo (Andrew Hawley) as they set out for a weekend camping trip on Dartmoor in England’s picturesque West Country. Ignoring warnings from the ...

The Devil Rides Out (1968) is a classic for fans of Hammer films. Based on Dennis Wheatley’s bestseller about satanic happenings in London’s Home Counties, the film was a hit on its first release and has remained popular ever since. ...

Even at their worst, Hammer films had an elusive quality which set them apart from their contemporaries and helped them stand the test of time. The Mummy’s Shroud (1967) follows an archeological expedition that, in 1920, unearths the tomb of ...

Hidden in the Woods (2012): one of the most grueling, unrelenting exercises in sickening violence you’re likely to see. Chilean writer / director Patricio Valladares reduces the “torture porn” sub-genre to new lows. The film brings together Carolina Escobar and ...

Clive Barker’s brand of horror is hard to define. Falling somewhere between the popularpulp of Stephen King and the more erudite terrors of Peter Straub, it is mainly Barker’s short stories and novelettes which have made their way to the big ...

Steve Barker’s zombie twist, Outpost: Black Sun (2012), is quite frankly boring. The film opens with the end of WW2, where a German scientist, Klausener (David Gant), has been secretly trying to create an army of undead Nazi soldiers. Fast ...

Antonio and Marco Manetti’s new horror/thriller, Paura 3D (2012), is one of the most nauseating and balefully grimy films I’ve seen in years. And that’s saying something. The film centers on young mechanic Ale (Domenico Diele), who overhears a conversation between ...

The advantage small scale British films have over big studio productions is their artistic freedom. Matthias Hoene’s new horror comedy, Cockneys Vs Zombies (2012) takes full advantage of that. Starring British icons Richard Briers and Honor Blackman, this is a ...

Conor McMahon’s Stitches (2012) is British comedian Ross Noble’s film debut. Though similar in ways to the anarchic Funny Man (1994)—where the puerile humor is likely to repulse—Stitches’ grossness will have you doubled up with laughter. Stiches (Noble) is a ...

Who says 13 is unlucky? The 13th annual Film4 FrightFest horror film festival was held on August 23-27th in London’s West End. Launched in 2000 by legendary film journalist and horror expert Alan Jones, along with Paul McEvoy and Ian ...